Hello! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California. In my practice I value empathy, optimism and belief in the power of resiliency and healing. These are guiding principles in my personal and professional life. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I provide individual mental health treatment, psycho-education, and empowerment to support healing from trauma, depression, anxiety, challenges to self-esteem, relationship challenges, and management and treatment of symptoms of mental illness.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions. My goal is to build trust and rapport with you, and to honor your identified goals for treatment. We will together develop a treatment plan, and I will provide you with information and feedback on treatment modalities that pair with your goals. During our first session, I will check in with you on how you are feeling about moving forward with me as your therapist.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I feel my greatest strengths as a provider are my empathy, optimism, and belief in the power of resilience and healing. I have the capacity to be present for the emotional distress of others while maintaining focus on healing and progression towards treatment goals, and supporting healing in the face of adversity. Throughout the course of treatment, I am adept in incorporating varying treatment modalities to match your symptoms and goals.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I specialize in the treatment of trauma, depression, anxiety, and mental health conditions impacting self-esteem and sense of self, which serve as a barrier to their dreams, hopes, and happiness in their lives. My clients are eager to alter maladaptive patterns in their lives, heal from traumatic and/or stressful experiences, and learn adaptive coping and self care to find joy and meaning in their lives.
About Lauren Alon
Lauren Alon offers therapy covered by Central California Alliance for Health (Medi-Cal), Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Health Plan of San Joaquin - Medi-Cal, L.A. Care Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Orange County Mental Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal) and San Francisco Health Plan (Medi-Cal) in California.
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Trauma Informed Care
In trauma informed care I provide varying modalities dependent upon client's presentation and symptoms during session. I have Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) certification and am obtaining additional certifications in this area to treat both childhood and adult trauma, and to treat trauma I utilize trauma focused Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT, and CBT approaches.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
In my practice I utilize CBT to address varying diagnosis and symptoms, including but not limited to trauma, depression, anxiety disorders, and self esteem, in order to assist clients in self care, adaptive coping, and challenging and reframing self critical thoughts and feelings triggered in their present lives.
Compassion Focused
I provide Compassion focused therapy in conjunction with treatment for trauma, depression, challenges to self-esteem, and is applied in assisting clients experiencing self critical thoughts and feelings, self doubt, guilt and shame. I find Compassion focused therapy beneficial to support client's in self care, validation, and nurturing parts of self that are stuck in maladaptive and self-critical responses to emotional distress.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I incorporate DBT in treatment for the majority of my clients, as I find it beneficial in DBT's focus on mindfulness of our emotional experiences, triggers, and causal factors stemming from distressing events and/or experiences throughout our lives. I find this awareness supports people improve self care and adaptive coping, and to be able to pair onset of triggered distress and mental health conditions with self care, compassion, grounding, and adaptive coping. DBT has been beneficial in supporting my clientele build the foundation for self care, self-esteem. and improved sense of identify and self acceptance. This foundation also assists clients in learning and applying other treatment modalities, as mindfulness, self care, and grounding, for example, supports clients in building a window of tolerance for CBT to challenge and reframe self critical thoughts and feelings that they prior have adopted as part of their identity.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I primarily utilize Trauma focused Internal Family Systems in treatment of clientele who have experiences severe stress and/or trauma which has resulted in dissociative symptoms, numbing, flight or fight responses, and other stress and trauma responses which may have been protective during trauma, however are maladaptive in their present lives. Internal family Systems has been beneficial in helping client's nurture parts of themselves that feel stuck in trauma and stress they experienced throughout their lives, and improve care, compassion, and nurturing, as well as adaptive coping to pair with current stressors and triggers.